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Important to note – These tools are not a diagnosis — only a licensed professional can diagnose. If a result is concerning, the best next step is to talk to a therapist, doctor, or counselor and share your results as a starting point for discussion.
Useful Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Mobile Apps
Mental Health or Suicide Prevention
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App Name in App Store
Description / Features
Suicide Prevention
Got Your Back
Got Your Back is a digital platform for suicide awareness, prevention and education. There are tools custom built for the user to help cope with anxiety and depression including messaging tools for people in your squad making them aware that you are NOT OKAY’; one-touch access to crisis centers and hotlines; and mindfulness and calming exercises to help guide the user through moments of anxiety. It also includes a suicide safety plan feature. Find the QR code to download to your mobile device here – https://jacobsswag.org/app/.
Suicide Prevention
Virtual Hope Box
Virtual Hope Box helps users access immediate reminders of hope in moments of stress. Users can upload personally meaningful photos, videos, songs, and quotes. They can also choose puzzles, relaxation exercises and guided meditations, and “coping tools” (self-created cards, activity planning alarms, and a phone contact list) in the app to consolidate many resources in one app. It also includes a suicide safety plan feature. Get it on Google Play or the Apple App Store on your mobile device by searching ‘Virtual Hope Box’.
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Safety Plan
Suicide Safety Plan helps users cope and stay safe when they’re experiencing suicidal thoughts. The app allows users to program useful information, including personal warning signs, coping strategies, contacts, and more. It also allows users to easily contact help and provides them with educational resources to help them make the most of their safety plan. Learn more about the Suicide Safety Plan app here – https://suicidesafetyplan.app/ – and download from Google Play or the Apple App Store on your mobile device by searching ‘suicide safety plan app’.
Suicide Prevention
A Friend Asks
A free app for youth that helps provide the information, tools, and resources to help a friend (or yourself) who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide. It includes suicide warning signs, do’s and don’ts, and a direct link to the 988 Crisis & Suicide Lifeline. Provided by The Jason Foundation, download it on Google Play or the Apple App Store by searching ‘a friend asks’.
Non-Suicidal Self Injury
CalmHarm
Designed for youth who self harm, this app provides activities/techniques to Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, and Release. It has breathing exercise to help you be mindful and stay in the moment, regulate difficult emotions, and reduce tension which can be helpful for those thinking of suicide too. Learn more about the Calm Harm app here – https://calmharm.stem4.org.uk/ – and download from Google Play or the Apple App Store on your mobile device by searching ‘Calm Harm’.
Mental Health
Mind Shift
Mind Shift is one of the best mental health apps designed specifically for teens and young adults with anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxious feelings, Mind Shift stresses the importance of changing how you think about anxiety. Think of this app as the cheerleader in your pocket, encouraging you to take charge of your life, ride out intense emotions, and face challenging situations. Learn more about the MindShift app here – https://mindshiftcbt.com/ – and download from Google Play or the Apple App Store on your mobile device by searching ‘mindshift cbt’.
Mental Health
Finch
Finch is a unique self-care app that encourages the user to fill out reflective questionnaires, set goals, and develop positive habits. By combining healthful practices with an adorable virtual pet, the Finch app also supports self-care for humans. It offers a list of self care activities you can such as meditations, breathing exercises, journal reflections, soundscapes, daily check-ins, and motivational quotes. Download to your mobile device easily by searching ‘finch’ on Google Play of in the Apple App Store.
Mental Health
Calm
One of the first mental health apps to be developing for guided meditation and sleep. Calm teaches a person about the foundations of mindfulness meditation and provides access to a library of meditation sessions and programs that target specific themes, such as dating, panic, anxiety, and deep sleep.
The app also provides exercises, breathing techniques, music, and bedtime stories for people who are tense, feel anxious, or want to improve quality of their sleep. Download to your mobile device easily by searching ‘calm’ on Google Play of in the Apple App Store.
Mental Health
Headspace
This popular app helps you learn how to breathe, live, and meditate – mindfully. This app is specifically designed to help you improve focus, induce calm, manage stress, and improve sleep. It offers hundreds of guided meditations, mini-meditations, sleep sounds, SOS meditations for emergencies, meditations for kids, and animations to help you better understand meditation. Download to your mobile device easily by searching ‘headspace’ on Google Play of in the Apple App Store.
Mental Health
Daylio
Daylio is a highly versatile micro-diary and mood tracker that allows you to log your daily emotions, activities, and habits without typing a single line. By combining mood data with daily habits, the app generates personalized statistics to help you spot emotional triggers and behavioral patterns. “Learn more about the Daylio app here – https://daylio.net/ – and download from Google Play or the Apple App Store on your mobile device by searching ‘daylio’.
Mental Health
MoodTools
MoodTools aims to support people with clinical depression by aiding the path to recovery. Discover helpful videos that can improve your mood and behavior, log and analyze your thoughts using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles, develop a suicide safety plan and more with this free app. Learn more about the MoodTools app here – https://moodtools.org/ – and download from Google Play or the Apple App Store on your mobile device by searching ‘moodtools.
Mental Health
PTSD Coach
Created by the VA’s National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), PTSD Coach offers everything from a self-assessment for PTSD, to opportunities to find support, positive self-talk, and anger management. What’s great about this app is that you can customize tools based on your own individual needs and preferences, and integrate your own contacts, photos, and music. Learn more about the VA’s PTSD Coach mobile app here – https://www.ptsd.va.gov/appvid/mobile/ptsdcoach_app.asp – and download from Google Play or the Apple App Store on your mobile device by searching ‘ptsd coach.’
Support Groups
Toolkits
The Indiana Department of Health’s Division of Fatality Review and Prevention in collaboration with the Suicide Learning Collaborative, a multi-disciplinary working group addressing suicide in Indiana, developed a Suicide Prevention Resources Toolkit. Toolkit sections include healthcare, first responders, government, stakeholder groups, justice, employers, faith-based, media, coroners, family, education and populations of special consideration. View the toolkit here.